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A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART XXVII
"We, ten of Jacob's sons, including Benjamin, are back in Egypt ... We have returned to buy more grain.... We have just met with the official in charge of the grain distribution... It seems he remembers us.... However, he has not said anything about our youngest brother Benjamin... Neither has he said anything about releasing Simeon... Perhaps he has forgotten that he had put Simeon in prison... After all, that was a year ago... And he is a very busy man... No doubt, he has more important issues on his mind than a Hebrew prisoner named Simeon...Moreover, we have not yet been given any grain... Instead, the steward has taken us to the house of the official.... We don't understand why that is... We must be in trouble... Very likely, the official wants to keep us as slaves after all... That may well be because we never paid him the first time since we found the silver back in our sacks...He may believe that we are nothing more than common thieves...Is there anyone we can explain to what really happened?"... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Jacob's sons are concerned what may happen to them after they are taken to the house of the "Egyptian" official...
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART XXVII
The ten sons of Jacob, including Benjamin, who have travelled from Canaan to Egypt to buy grain for their families, have arrived and have been brought before the "Egyptian" official in charge of the grain distribution. To their surprise they are then taken to the house of the official as you can read in Genesis 43:18
Now the men were frightened when they were taken into his house. They thought, "We were brought here because of the silver that was put back into our sacks the first time. He wants to attack us and overpower us and seize us as slaves and take our donkeys." The brothers looked at each other.
The brothers do not quite know what to make of that invitation to eat at the house of the "Egyptian" official.
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